“It all looks clean on the land. But of course it doesn’t look clean in the water.” Dr. Chris Jones

“As our streams have been degraded our farms now look clean. You drive across the countryside and all our farms look like this – corn and soybeans, no weeds… we have 25 million hogs in Iowa but you can drive across Iowa and never see a hog – with 25 milllion of them – but you never see them because they’re in these buildings up on the horizon. And so it all looks clean on the land but of course it doesn’t look clean in the water.” – Dr. Chris Jones

Dr. Chris Jones’ compelling presentation on the factors behind Iowa’s water quality crisis during the launching of his new book, “The Swine Republic” in Fairfield. Following the presentation, Jones answers a wide range of audience questions.

0:00 Introduction
7:42 Dr. Chris Jones presentation
36:41 Audience questions

The Swine Republic: https://icecubepress.com/2023/04/10/t…
Substack column: https://substack.com/profile/1047794-…
Blogspot: https://riverraccoon.blogspot.com/ (This has the last 6 months of Jones’ University of Iowa blog posts uploaded)

The book launch was organized by Southeast Iowa Sierra Club and cosponsored by Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors, Inc., Sustainable Iowa Land Trust, Sustainable Living Center, and Radiance Dairy.

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